Biologique Recherche Lait U Cleansing Milk

Biologique Recherche Lait U Cleansing Milk Biologique Recherche Lait U Cleansing Milk ingredients explained: Water (Aqua), Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Squalane, Propylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate, Propylene Glycol, Corylus Avellana (Hazel) Seed Oil, Pentylene Glycol, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Glyceryl Stearate, Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Germ Extract, Tocopheryl Acetate, Ethyl Oleate, Ethyl Linoleate, Cetyl Palmitate, Laureth-7, Ethyl Linolenate, Cetearyl Isononanoate, Ceteareth-20, Ceteareth-12, Cetearyl Alcohol, Polyacrylamide, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Caprylyl Glycol, P-Anisic Acid Show all ingredients by function Water (Aqua) solvent Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride emollient Squalane skin-identical ingredient, emollient 0, 1 goodie Propylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate Propylene Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, solvent 0, 0 Corylus Avellana (Hazel) Seed Oil Pentylene Glycol solvent, moisturizer/​humectant Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil 0, 1-3 Glyceryl Stearate emollient, emulsifying Triticum Vulgare (Wheat) Germ Extract Tocopheryl Acetate antioxidant Ethyl Oleate emollient, perfuming Ethyl Linoleate Cetyl Palmitate Laureth-7 emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing Ethyl Linolenate Cetearyl Isononanoate Ceteareth-20 3, 2 Ceteareth-12 Cetearyl Alcohol emollient, viscosity controlling, emulsifying, surfactant/​cleansing 1, 2 Polyacrylamide viscosity controlling C13-14 Isoparaffin emollient, viscosity controlling, solvent Caprylyl Glycol moisturizer/​humectant, emollient P-Anisic Acid preservative Good old water, aka H2O. The most common skincare ingredient of all. You can usually find it right in the very first spot of the ingredient list, meaning it’s the biggest thing out of all the stuff that makes up the product. It’s mainly a solvent for ingredients that do not like to dissolve in oils but rather in water. Expand to read more Once inside the skin, it hydrates, but not from the outside - putting pure water on the skin (hello long baths!) is drying. One more thing: the water used in cosmetics is purified and deionized (it means that almost all of the mineral ions inside it is removed). Like this, the products can stay more stable over time. A super common emollient that makes your skin feel nice and smooth. It comes from coconut oil and glycerin, it’s light-textured, clear, odorless and non-greasy. It’s a nice ingredient that just feels good on the skin, is super well tolerated by every skin type and easy to formulate with. No wonder it’s popular. It seems to us that squalane is in fashion and there is a reason for it. Chemically speaking, it is a saturated (no double bonds) hydrocarbon (a molecule consisting only of carbon and hydrogen), meaning that it's a nice and stable oily liquid with a long shelf life. It occurs naturally in certain fish and plant oils (e.g. olive), and in the sebum (the oily stuff our skin produces) of the human skin. As f.c. puts it in his awesome blog post, squalane's main things are "emolliency, surface occlusion, and TEWL prevention all with extreme cosmetic elegance". In other words, it's a superb moisturizer that makes your skin nice and smooth, without being heavy or greasy. Another advantage of squalane is that it is pretty much compatible with all skin types and skin conditions. It is excellent for acne-prone skin and safe to use even if you have fungi-related skin issues, like seborrhea or fungal acne. The unsaturated (with double bonds) and hence less stable version of Squalane is Squalene, you can read about it here >> Propylene Glycol Dicaprylate/Dicaprate is an emollient that leaves a light, non-oily smooth and velvet skin sensation. According to manufacturer info it's also great at dispersing and dissolving pigments and sunscreen actives. Most often you will meet this guy in light moisturizers, sunscreens or makeup products. It's a helper ingredient that improves the freeze-thaw stability of products It's also a solvent, humectant and to some extent a penetration enhancer It has a bad reputation among natural cosmetics advocates but cosmetic scientists and toxicology experts do not agree (read more in the geeky details section) It's the oil that comes from the edible hazelnuts. Just like many other plant oils, it's a great emollient, moisturizer, skin softener. It has a light skin feeling, spreads easily and absorbs quickly into the skin. It's rich in nourishing fatty acid, oleic containing about 66-85%. A multi-functional, silky feeling helper ingredient that can do quite many things. It's used what‑it‑does skin-identical ingredient | emollient irritancy, com. moisturizer/humectant | solvent solvent | moisturizer/humectant emollient | emulsifying emollient | perfuming emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | viscosity controlling | emulsifying | surfactant/cleansing emollient | viscosity controlling | solvent moisturizer/humectant | emollient